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November
22nd, 2006
Is Your Dream Self Giving Thanks Also?
Your dream response to Thanksgiving can be quite different your
waking
attitude.
Thanksgiving
can cause us
to experience
all kinds of
dreams from
joy to stress.
Here
are four
dreams that
illustrate
some of those
variations to
this great
holiday. In
different ways
the issue of
family or
giving thanks
arises in each
of these
dreams.
Barb's
Dream: A
Perfect
Thanksgiving
Barb
organizes a
close-to-perfect
Thanksgiving
dinner,
apparently on
an airplane.
Everyone shows
up. Barb is
the maestro.
In the course
of this
terrific event
she manages to
feed her
entire set of
relatives, be
polite,
self-sacrificing,
superior and
thoughtful all
in the same
dream.
I
decide to
invite friends
and family
over for
Thanksgiving
and am
preparing a
big dinner. My
mother is in
the kitchen
fixing food, I
am enjoying
it. Rochelle
comes in. I
look at
Rochelle's new
wig, brown and
kind of ugly.
I compliment
her and say
it's pretty. I
see uncles and
cousins and
then my
Grandmother
Agnes. I am
very happy to
see her and
hug her a long
hard time
We
get turkey and
potatoes and
there is
plenty, but I
realize we
didn't get the
special
treats, so I
say to a woman
down the
table,
"Could
you ask the
captain (of an
airplane) to
pass down the
sauce?"
She's
embarrassed to
do it. I ask
the copilot to
do it. He
hesitates and
I get annoyed
and say,
"Oh, for
goodness
sakes, I guess
I'll just do
it
myself!!"
I get up,
which shames
the woman, who
tries to ask
the captain
who ignores
the request. I
walk passed
him and start
gathering them
up.
A
woman who is
gathering up
the leftovers
says,
"What are
you going to
do with all
this?" I
say,
"Don't
worry, it
won't go to
waste. I'll
take it to the
babies in the
hospital,
maybe to the
homeless."
That's
a high-flying
celebration.
If this is
something Barb
can pull off
in waking life
then I'd take
it as a
detailed wish
list. If not,
it's perhaps a
warning to be
more
realistic.
Ruth's
Revenge:
Attack of the
Giant Turkeys
Ruth's
dream, on the
eve of
Thanksgiving,
makes great
use of the
everyday
meaning of a
"turkey."
I
dream I am
attacked by a
flock of
turkeys. They
are enormous.
I finally
pluck up all
my courage, I
grab the
leader by the
throat and I
choke him. All
the other
turkeys run
away. I look
around and I
am amazed to
see I am
outside my
ex-mother-in-law's
house. I throw
the turkey
over the fence
onto her lawn.
Well
done Ruth! She
defeated the
turkeys.
Don't
be surprised
if your dreams
remind you of
those things
for which you
are far from
grateful.
Alta's
Upsetting
Dream: Left
Behind
Alta
was with her
extended
family when
she suddenly
finds herself
outside and
all alone.
I
realize they
must have gone
inside for
Thanksgiving
dinner and not
bothered about
me. They
either assume
I can take
care of myself
or it's okay
for me to sit
outside and
isolate
myself. I'm
telling myself
what really
happened,
though, is
they got in
the car and
drove off and
don't know I'm
not with them.
They'll find
out soon and
come back for
me. But it
doesn't
happen, and I
sit there.
That's
a lonely
Dream-self.
I'd go back to
the beginning
of the dream
and replay it
making sure
that Alta got
to enjoy her
Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving
in Spring
This
dream suggests
the spiritual
side of giving
thanks.
I
was at a
religious
retreat,
sitting in a
dining room.
There were
roses on the
table; I
smelled their
fragrance. We
had a
Thanksgiving-type
dinner with my
favorite
things,
turkey,
stuffing,
cranberries,
and my
favorite kind
of dessert,
pumpkin pie.
And it was in
the middle of
spring which
is most
ironic.
You
can give
thanks at any
time.
Summary
Your
Dream-self
might not even
notice
Thanksgiving
but if he or
she does, it
is very likely
a different
experience
than your
waking self.
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